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Note: The packages on this page are maintained and supported by their respective packagers, not the Node.js core team. Please report any issues you encounter to the package maintainer. If it turns out your issue is a bug in Node.js itself, the maintainer will report the issue upstream.

Node.js is available from the NodeSource Debian and Ubuntu binary distributions repository (formerly Chris Lea's Launchpad PPA). Support for this repository, along with its scripts, can be found on GitHub at nodesource/distributions.

To compile and install native addons from npm you may also need to install build tools:

apt-get install -y build-essential

(Note: The optional "nodejs-legacy" package from Debian helps prevent a conflict with the Amateur Packet Radio "Node" Program)

Available architectures:

i386 (32-bit)

amd64 (64-bit)

armhf (ARM 32-bit hard-float, ARMv7 and up: arm-linux-gnueabihf)

Supported Ubuntu versions:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx, armhf build not available)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)

Supported Debian versions:

Debian 7 / stable (wheezy)

Debian testing (jessie)

Debian unstable (sid)

A Node.js package is also available in the official repo for Debian Sid (unstable), Jessie (testing) and Wheezy (wheezy-backports) as "nodejs".

Supported Linux Mint versions:

Linux Mint 13 "Maya" (via Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" (via Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) stable (via Debian stable)

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) testing (via Debian testing)

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) unstable (via Debian unstable)

Supported elementary OS versions:

elementary OS Luna (via Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

elementary OS Freya (via Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

Enterprise Linux and Fedora

Including Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® / RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.

Node.js is available from the NodeSource Enterprise Linux and Fedora binary distributions repository. Support for this repository, along with its scripts, can be found on GitHub at nodesource/distributions.

Note that the Node.js packages for EL 5 (RHEL5 and CentOS 5) depend on the EPEL repository being available. The setup script will check and provide instructions if it is not installed.

Run as root on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

Then install, as root:

yum install -y nodejs

Optional: install build tools

To compile and install native addons from npm you may also need to install build tools:

yum install gcc-c++ make
# or: yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Available architectures:

i386 (32-bit, not available for EL7)

x86_64 (64-bit)

Supported Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® versions:

RHEL 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

RHEL 6 (32-bit and 64-bit)

RHEL 7 (64-bit)

Supported CentOS versions:

CentOS 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

CentOS 6 (32-bit and 64-bit)

CentOS 7 (64-bit)

Supported Fedora versions:

Fedora 21 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) (32-bit and 64-bit)

Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's Cat) (32-bit and 64-bit)

Other distributions known to be supported:

Oracle Linux (mirrors RHEL very closely)

Amazon Linux (tested on 2014.03)

Alternatives

Official FedoraNode.js and npm packages are available in Fedora 18 and later. Install with:

Additionally, versions of CentOS and Scientific Linux corresponding to the above RHEL versions are also officially supported by all EPEL packages, including nodejs. Amazon Linux is not officially supported by EPEL due to significant incompatibilities previously reported to the epel-devel mailing list, however you might find that nodejs at least still works.